yesterday was not grey, in fact it was glorious... a little cold, (last night in particular was cold), but beautiful...
so i went out into the world with my camera, listening to the piano music i recorded for love & understanding last year... ate in the garden cafe on manor gardens, my first time there, pretty good... worth a second visit...
then it was just so glorious i had to go up the beaux arts building again, this time i skulked around a bit until a resident went in and i followed them through the front door.. (yes... like a criminal)...
took the lift up to the top floor and stepped out onto the roof...
what an amazing sight... the new arsenal stadium looks good from up there, in fact the new arsenal stadium (emirates stadium) is looking good to me from close or far off... when they start playing there i may not like it too much but right now it's pleasing...
you can't quite look in every direction sadly, the view west is blocked but north is uncluttered, south & east not bad... i enjoyed looking at the school on hornsey road, where our polling station is come election day... 
as i've already said the new stadium, with eburne road looking lovely just in front of it (that's right by hercules street, where manolis's cafe is)...shifting around to the other side of the building, looking southwest,
that blue building has drivers & norris written in red lettering on it, it's right where seven sisters road meets holloway road, near the cinema...i found my way past an open gate that said no entry and i came to someone's flat, which i swiftly came back from, but before i returned i caught sight of an easel with a painting on it... facing in this direction, capturing this view of london...
and then north... in the front of the picture are the trees of the royal northern gardens where i've been videoing leaves & sky for the past month,
further back you can see archway tower... well it's a tower at archway i suppose it might have another name and behind that (although so small on this picture you probably can't see it) the blue dome of the church by waterlow park, that same dome that i see as i cycle back from camdem, a high point amid all those trees, leafy north london...and then a look down inside the courtyard at the lovely ornamental garden...
as i was leaving the building i video'd the water in this garden, gently moving, as is my wont...then over into royal northern gardens for the sky videoing that will come to a close probably soon, all the while listening to this piano music of mine, all in small pieces, nothing more than two minutes, most less than a minute, i really like it, out of the context of the play it was written for, i might yet do something with it...
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